³ Now a certain Alcimus, who had formerly been high priest but had willfully defiled himself in the days of separation,^[a] realized that there was no way for him to be safe or to have access again to the holy altar^(A)

Nicanor Turns against Judas

²⁶ But when Alcimus noticed their goodwill for one another, he took the covenant that had been made and went to Demetrius. He told him that Nicanor was disloyal to the government, since he had appointed that conspirator against the kingdom, Judas, to be his successor.^(A)

⁹ He sent him, and with him he sent the ungodly Alcimus, whom he made high priest, and he commanded him to take vengeance on the Israelites.^(A)